China News Service, Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) In response to WHO officials' claims that China's request to investigate Fort Detrick in the United States is "contradictory", Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin at a regular press conference on the 26th Refuted that on the issue of traceability, experts from China and WHO have concluded that it is extremely unlikely that the virus leaked from the Wuhan laboratory; if the United States insists on the laboratory leak, then Fort Detrick should be opened to the international community. To investigate.

　　A reporter asked questions. According to reports, a few days ago, Ryan, the executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, answered a question about the theory of the "new coronavirus laboratory leak", saying that all assumptions about the origin of the virus are still under discussion.

China's request to investigate Fort Detrick in the United States is "contradictory" because Beijing strongly opposes the laboratory leak theory.

What's China's response to this?

　　In this regard, Wang Wenbin said that China's request is reasonable and justified, and there is no contradiction.

On the issue of traceability, experts from China and WHO have concluded that it is extremely unlikely that the virus leaked from the Wuhan laboratory. The vast majority of scientists in the world, including American scientists, believe that there is no evidence to support the theory of laboratory leakage.

The United States did not accept this scientific conclusion and insisted that the virus was leaked from the Wuhan laboratory. The Wuhan Institute of Virology has received WHO experts twice, while the Fort Detrick Base and the University of North Carolina have a strong presence in coronavirus research. Long history and poor safety record.

　　"If the US insists on the laboratory leak, then Fort Detrick should be opened to the international community to investigate. By the same token, if the WHO Secretariat insists that the laboratory leak cannot be ruled out, then the WHO should go to Germany in the United States. Fort Tricker is investigating. Unfortunately, we have not heard of such plans or plans from the WHO Secretariat so far. We have submitted to the WHO Secretariat 25 million Chinese netizens requesting an investigation into Fort Detrick. The letter was signed, and there was no response from the WHO Secretariat." Wang Wenbin said.

　　Wang Wenbin pointed out that China's request to investigate the Fort Detrick Base and the University of North Carolina in the United States is to use facts to tell people that the theory of laboratory leakage by the United States is credible and does not exist, and it is also to exclude the political traceability of the United States. Interference creates favorable conditions for scientific traceability.

If the U.S. refuses to accept it, it will further expose the true face of the U.S. politicizing the traceability.

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